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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions, designation as emergency response."
+description: "Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions, designation as emergency response."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 1246"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1246 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Obenshain"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-10"
+last_action: "2023-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b66b9b8-fcf9-4fd3-8337-1a6db12f9f18"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1246"
+source_hash: "103021136d02fc8dc30cf6fc3636c6d5f5058be8336f8a962c0b50a8d4633c7c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 1246 (2023) — Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions, designation as emergency response.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0459** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0459)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102677D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1246)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 23102677D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1246E)
+4. **SB1246ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1246ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Local Government with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Obenshain — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102677D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-16** Reported from Local Government with amendment (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-18** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-18** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2023-01-18** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-01-18** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1246E
+- **2023-01-18** Printed as engrossed 23102677D-E
+- **2023-01-19** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB1246E)
+- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-10** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-15** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-20** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1246ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB1246ER)
+- **2023-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 459 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b66b9b8-fcf9-4fd3-8337-1a6db12f9f18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+